The systematic replication of other researchers’ work should be a normal part of science. That is the main message of the Academy advisory report ‘Replication studies – Improving reproducibility in the empirical sciences’, published on 15 January 2018.

Press release Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

Brain protein overactive in Parkinson’s disease

A team of neuroscientists from the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience demonstrated for the first time that a protein involved in the formation of nerve fibers and neuronal connections could be involved in Parkinson’s disease.

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